Integrating Therapy and Coaching with 12-Step Programs by Dr. Robert Weathers

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Recovery from Addiction: On Dealing with Distractions by Dr. Robert Weathers

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Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Each and All"

Each and All

Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown,
Of thee, from the hill-top looking down;
And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm,
Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm;
The sexton tolling the bell at noon,
Dreams not that great Napoleon
Stops his horse, and lists with delight,
Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine height;
Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent:
All are needed by each one,
Nothing is fair or good alone.

On Composing a Creative Life

We Are Many

by Pablo Neruda

Of the many men whom I am, whom we are, I cannot settle on a single one.

They are lost to me under the cover of clothing. They have departed for another city.

When everything seems to be set to show me off as a man of intelligence, the fool I keep concealed in my person takes over my talk and occupies my mouth.

On Creativity and the Marketplace

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An Integral Approach to Substance Abuse: Body, Mind, and Spirit « Dr. Bob Weathers

An Integral Approach to Substance Abuse: Body, Mind, and Spirit « Dr. Bob Weathers

Rumi on Being Yourself, with Humility

God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing-pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note. I'll show you how it's enough.

Creative Block and the Ego’s Death

Have you ever noticed that creativity may not come naturally --- or as a friend of mine says, “through the front door”?  For example, why is it when I have an open hour or two (or occasionally, longer) to compose new music (a lifelong hobby) that I oftentimes will find myself resorting to mundane or repetitive tasks instead; which cut into my available time for creative projects?  I’ve even mentioned to friends, with befuddlement: “It’s amazing how interesting vacuuming all the floors can be when faced with wide-open time for creative purposes?”

Recovery from Addiction: Body, Mind, & Spirit

Recovery from Addiction: Body, Mind, & Spirit « Dr. Bob Weathers

Why Not Just Say No (Video Blog)

Dr. Robert Weathers challenging too-simple notions of addiction and willpower, by incorporating current evidence from neuroscience. Click below to watch Dr. Robert Weathers...

The Labels We Use (Video Blog)

Dr. Bob Weathers helping us to pay a bit closer attention to the labels we use to describe others and ourselves, particularly regarding the experience of "intoxication."

Tips for Transformative Learning (Video Blog)

Dr. Bob Weathers discussing some helpful tips for learning in a way that changes YOU, the active learner practicing "beginner's mind."

Just Say "Yes"

One rule of improvisational theater is to mentally say "Yes" to any creative impulse. This allows for stories to develop, for life to bloom. In relationships, similarly open-minded imagination allows for love to bloom. (The Center for Healthy Sex)

Creativity and "Unknowing" by Dr. Robert Weathers

Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well. (Meister Eckhart) 

Creativity Beyond Just the Mind

All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind. (Eckhart Tolle)

Einstein, a Little Birdy, and Personal Creativity by Dr. Bob Weathers

Albert Einstein once observed: “The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.”  Last evening I had a first-hand experience of this truth…

I was staying at a good friend’s house.  I opened the back door (to head to her Jacuzzi), only to have a little sparrow fly directly into the house.

Once I regained my wits, I immediately went about the task of shooing the little bird back outside, where it belonged.  But it had different plans!